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sibilantly
adverb
phonetics literary or specializeduk /ˈsɪb.əl.ənt.li/ us /ˈsɪb.əl.ənt.li/
in a way that makes a s or sh sound:
He whispered sibilantly, "Why didn't you tell me about this?"
The sea was running sibilantly in and out on the sandy beach.
One imagines him speaking sibilantly to the chancellor afterwards.
His lips moved sibilantly.
"Surely, you should have mentioned this?" she said, dragging the last syllable out sibilantly.
She closed her eyes and started to whisper sibilantly in a language he had never heard.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
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ululation
unsounded
vocalization
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